Note from Ray Marshall: The spelling of the names is that of the census enumerator, thus
many names are known to be misspelled. Additionally, the penmanship or microfilm copy
was not always clear enough to be certain as to the actual name intended. The numbers after
the country of birth indicate the years and months the head of household has lived in
Minnesota and the years and months he has lived in the Census District.

The shipping of Iron Ore began from the Mesabi Range in 1892 and thousands of laborers
flocked there for the jobs. The City of Virginia became the home for most of the Polish
workers on the Range. They formed their own Catholic Church in 1905, St. John the
Baptist.